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Engineering
| FACULTY MEMBER | RESEARCH | |
|---|---|---|
| Chemical & Biological Engineering | ||
| Baldwin | Susan | Bioprocess engineering, anaerobic fermentation, bioremediation, reactor modeling, biochemical reaction modeling, reaction kinetics, particulate processes |
| Bi | Xiaotao | Gas-solids fluidization, including modeling, scale-up and hydrodynamics studies of gas-solids bubbling and turbulent fluidized, bed catalytic reactors |
| Bowen | Bruce | Biomedical modelling, natural convection, electrokinetic phenomena, emulsification, particle deposition, transport phenomena |
| Branion | Richard | Microbial leaching, oil water separation, paper technology, wastewater treatment |
| Creagh | Louise | Thermodynamics and kinetics of protein stability and protein-ligand binding |
| Ellis | Naoko | Multiphase flow, fluidization, scale-up issues and numerical simulations, with the application to combustion systems with inherent capture of CO2 |
| Englezos | Peter | Fluid phase equilibria, thermodynamics, clathrate hydrates, flowing polymer blends, pulp and paper, global warming, papermaking chemistry |
| Epstein | Norman | Electrokinetic phenomena, fouling, heat exchangers, interfacial phenomena, particulate systems, spouted beds, three-phase fluidization |
| Feng | Jimmy | Fluid mechanics, specifically modeling and numerical simulation of complex fluids such as polymers and liquid crystals |
| Gopaluni | Bhushan | System identification, fault detection and diagnosis, iterative control, and identification |
| Grace | John | Biomass, coal, combustion, flow two phase, fluid mechanics, fluid-particle systems, fluidization, heat transfer |
| Gyenge | Elod | Electrochemical engineering, electrocatalysis and interfacial phenomena with emphasis on electrochemical power sources, inorganic and organic electrosynthesis |
| Hatzikiriakos | Savvas | Rheology, polymer melts, polymer processing, non-newtonian fluid mechanics, polymer blends, shear-induced mixing, slip velocity, melt fracture, shear-thickening |
| Haynes | Charles | Protein purification, recombinant proteins, molecular thermodynamics, chiral-drug purification, biocompatible polymers |
| Kannangara | Dhaneshwarie | Lab course design, electrochemistry and analytical chemistry |
| Kerekes | Richard | Flocculation, fluid mechanics, mixing, pulp paper, screening, fibre suspensions |
| Kwok | Ezra | Pulp and paper, model predictive control, adoptive control, modeling, feedback control systems, expert system, performance assessment |
| Lau | Anthony | Environmental engineering, pollution prevention and control, solid waste, biowaste treatment and utilization, composting, biofiltration, odor control, sustainable greenhouse production, heat and mass transfer |
| Lim | C. Jim | Oil shale pyrolysis, reactor modeling, waste treatment, coal combustion/ gasification, comminution, erosion, fluid-solid systems, fluidized beds, heat transfer |
| Martinez | Mark | Advanced papermaking |
| Mohseni | Madjid | Bioprocess engineering and advanced oxidation for environmental engineering and waste management |
| Oloman | Colin | Electrodes, air pollution, electrochemical engineering, electrosynthesis, industrial chemicals, pollution air, pulp paper |
| Petrell | Royanne | Stream restoration, acquacultural engineering, image capturing and analysis, numerical modeling of biological systems, salmonid/seaweed production systems, bio-aquatic sensor design and quantification of biological data and constraints |
| Piret | James | Biochemical and biomedical engineering, bioreactor, biopreocess, red-batch, perfusion, hollow fibre, hybridoma, CHO, hematopoietic cells, recombinant protein, cytokine |
| Posarac | Dusko | Mathematical modeling, Process simulation, Multiphase reactors |
| Smith | Kevin | Catalysis, kinetic modeling, heavy oil upgrading, methane homologation, catalyst design, ceramic membranes |
| Tajhipour | Fariborz | Eliminating chloro-organics from pulp mill effluents and the formation of volatile organics from irradiated systems |
| Watkinson | Paul | Heat exchanger fouling, gasification, heat transfer, kilns, rotary kilns, shale,oil sands, coal |
| Wilkinson | David | Electrochemical power sources; Clean and sustainable energy - fuel cells |
| Civil Engineering | ||
| Adebar | Perry | Structural engineering, concrete structures |
| Anderson | Don L. | Structural engineering, earthquake engineering, applied mechanics |
| Atwater | Jim | Environmental engineering, toxic and hazardous waste management |
| Banthia | Nemy | Materials engineering, concrete, advanced composite materials |
| Bérubé | Pierre | Membrane and advanced oxidation technologies for water and wastewater treatment |
| Byrne | Peter | Geotechnical engineering, static and dynamic soil-structure interaction |
| Campanella | Richard | In-situ soil testing, stress path analysis, plane strain testing, creep rupture and stress-strain-strain rate behavior of natural clays |
| Chieng | Sie-Tan | Drainage and irrigation engineering |
| Elwood | Kenneth | Earthquake engineering, including performance-based seismic design, seismic behaviour of reinforced concrete structures, seismic retrofit, characterization of seismic demands, nonlinear structural analysis and shake table testing |
| Fannin | Jonathan | Geotechnical engineering, geosynthetics, reinforced soil, forest roads |
| Finn | W.D. Liam | Geotechnical engineering, seismic soil-structure interaction, liquefaction |
| Foschi | Ricardo O. | Structural engineering, risk and reliability, timber structures |
| Froese | Tom | Construction engineering and management, project management, computer-integrated construction, product and process models for architecture, engineering, construction, computers in engineering education |
| Hall | Eric | Environmental engineering, forest industry pollution; pulp and paper wastewater, wastewater treatment |
| Hall | Ken | Environmental engineering; environmental contaminants; aquatic toxicity; water pollution in lower Fraser River |
| Haukaas | Terje | Application of probabilistic methods to civil engineering problems, structural safety and risk analysis, structural mechanics and earthquake engineering |
| Howie | John | In-situ testing, ground improvements, foundation engineering, geo-environmental |
| Isaacson | Michael | Coastal and ocean engineering, fluid mechanics, waves and wave loading |
| Laval | Bernard | Environmental fluid mechanics, physical limnology, coastal oceanography, transport processes, hydrodynamic stability, and mixing |
| Lawrence | Greg | Environmental fluid mechanics, pollutant dispersion, stratified flows |
| Lence | Barbara | Environmental systems engineering, water resources, decision analysis |
| Li | Loretta | Soil contaminant interaction and migration, site remediation, clay liners, mine tailings wastes |
| Lo | Victor | Biological process applications in waste treatment and utilization |
| Martin | Violeta | Hydraulic processes, physical modelling, river engineering, sediment transport and hydrology |
| Mavinic | Don | Environmental engineering, water quality, waste treatment processes |
| Millar | Rob | Hydraulics, river processes, river bank stability |
| Mindess | Sidney | Materials engineering, properties of cement and concrete |
| Navin | Frank | Traffic engineering, road safety, transportation planning |
| Nesbit | Susan | Scholarly teaching and the application of sustainability concepts in engineering education and practice |
| Prion | Helmut | Structural engineering, steel and timber structures |
| Quick | Michael | Hydrology, fluid mechanics, hydraulic engineering, sediment transport |
| Russell | Alan | Construction management and economics, risk analysis |
| Sayed | Tarek | Traffic engineering, urban analysis, intelligent transportation systems |
| Sexsmith | Robert G. | Structural engineering, earthquake engineering, risk and reliability |
| Staub-French | Sheryl | Construction engineering and management, feature-based cost estimating, design for constructability, and product and process modelling |
| Stiemer | Sigfried | Structural engineering, steel structures; expert systems |
| Vaid | Yogi | Geotechnical engineering, laboratory testing, properties of clay and sand |
| Vaziri | Reza | Composite materials, applied mechanics, finite element analysis |
| Ventura | Carlos | Structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, seismic monitoring |
| Wijewickreme | Dharma | Fundamental property characterization and advanced laboratory testing of soils, static and dynamic (seismic) stress-strain response of fine and coarse-grained soils, physical modeling, pipe-soil and soil-structure interaction, liquefaction, constitutive relations |
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | ||
| Aamodt | Tor | Memory system microarchitecture for high performance microprocessors |
| Aboulnasr | Tyseer | Digital signal processing |
| Abugharbieh | Rafeef | Computerized processing, analysis, and the understanding of digital images |
| Beznosov | Konstantin | Application of software engineering to the domain of computer security, specifically developing new methods for engineering security mechanisms for large-scale distributed applications |
| Bhargava | Vijay | Digital communications, error correcting codes, and systems and technologies beyond IMT 2000 |
| Calviño-Fraga | Jesús | |
| Cheung | Karen | Biomedical microsystems for diagnostic and therapeutic applications: dielectric spectroscopy for flow cytometry, implantable polymer-based microelectrode arrays, and integrated cell culture systems |
| Chrostowksi | Lukas | Nanophotonics, high-speed modulation of semiconductor lasers, optical communications, and fabrication of vertical cavity lasers |
| Cretu | Edmund | MEMS/microsystems and nonlinear signal processing, with emphasis on adaptive and functional coupling in microsystems for biomedical applications |
| Cumming | Ian | Digital signal processing for synthetic aperture radar |
| Davies | Michael | Process modeling and control |
| Dommel | Hermann W. | Electrical power systems engineering |
| Donaldson | Robert W. | Telecommunications and signal processing |
| Dumont | Guy | Pulp and paper, process control |
| Dunford | William G. | Power semiconductors, phase control |
| Fels | Sidney | Human computer interaction and adaptive interfaces |
| Gopalakrishnan | Sathish | Real-time and distributed systems, sensor networks, QoS optimization, and reconfigurable systems |
| Ito | Mabo | Computer and software engineering |
| Ivanov | André | VLSI design and test |
| Jaeger | Carol | Electronics, electromagnetics, signal processing, assorted sensors |
| Jaeger | Nick | Integrated optics, fibre optics, optoelectronics |
| Jatskevich | Juri | Numerical efficiency of simulation and algorithms for automated modeling and analysis of switched electrical systems using multi-computer networks |
| Jull | Edward V. | Electromagnetic theory and antennas, scattering and diffraction |
| Kharadly | Mos M.Z. | Applied electromagnetics, microwave engineering |
| Krishnamurthy | Vikram | New algorithms for improved performance of mobile wireless telecommunication systems and defense sensor systems |
| Kruchten | Philippe | Software engineering for a variety of sectors, including defense, telecommunications, transportation, aerospace, and software development tools |
| Lampe | Lutz | Information theory and signal processing for digital communications, including coding, space-time and multi-carrier modulation, and multi-user detection |
| Laszlo | Charles A. | Clinical and biomedical engineering |
| Lawrence | Peter D. | Robotics; telerobotics and real-time visionsystems |
| Lemieux | Guy | Design and optimization of programmable logic structures, especially as applied to computing systems |
| Leung | Cyril S. | Communications |
| Leung | Victor | Communications |
| Linares | Luis | |
| Madden | John | Nanostructured materials (conducting polymers and carbon nanotubes) and their application in electronic components, artificial muscle, sensors and medical devices |
| Marti | Jose | Power engineering |
| Michelson | David | Wireless communications, with an emphasis on characterization of radiowave propagation in both indoor and urban environments |
| Mirabbasi | Shahriar | Analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems design, with an emphasis on high-speed data communication and signal processing applications |
| Nasiopoulos | Panos | DVD, high definition television, universal multimedia accessibility |
| Nojeh | Alireza | Controlled fabrication, physics and applications of nanostructures, electron emission phenomena, electron microscopy and modeling of nanoscale systems |
| Oishi | Meeko | Hybrid and nonlinear control theory, human interaction with control systems, hybrid reachabilty, and modeling and control of biological systems |
| Pulfrey | David | Solid-state microelectronics |
| Ripeanu | Matei | Large-scale distributed systems (grid, peer-to-peer and utility computing) and high performance computing |
| Rohling | Robert | Biomedical engineering, ultrasound instrumentation and imaging, and signal processing |
| Salcudean | Tim | Robotics and teleoperation, control systems |
| Saleh | Resve | Design and verification methodologies emerging from the new "system on a chip" paradigm |
| Schober | Robert | Wireless communications, including space-time processing, space-time coding, multiuser detection, noncoherent receivers, equalization, interference suppression, coded modulation, iterative processing, and adaptive algorithms |
| Schrack | Gunther F. | Computer and software engineering, computer graphics |
| Servati | Peyman | Nano-structured semiconductors, nanocomposites and nanowires for electronic devices on rigid and flexible substrates |
| Soudack | Avrum | Nonlinear systems |
| Srivastava | K.D. | Power engineering |
| Stocco | Leo | Robotics, biomedical applications, haptic interfaces and electromechanical optimization |
| Stoeber | Boris | Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Microfluidics, Sensor technology, integrated microsystems for biomedical applications and for environmental control |
| Takahata | Kenichi | Micro/nano-machined devices and MEMS, with a focus on biomedical applications and their manufacturing technologies, including micro-electro discharge machining |
| Tang | Shuo | Biomedical optics, optical coherence tomography, multiphoton microscopy, in vivo imaging, endoscopy, and early cancer detection |
| Tiedje | Tom | Semiconductors, scanning tunneling microscopy |
| Turner | Robin F.B. | Biosensor technology, analytical biochemistry, biotechnology |
| Walus | Konrad | Simulation and design of nanoelectronic devices and circuits, with a current focus on the realization of Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) |
| Wang | Z. Jane | Statistical signal processing, biomedical imaging, genomic signal processing, information security, and wireless communications |
| Ward | Rabab K. | Image processing |
| Wilton | Steve | VLSI, computer architectures |
| Wong | Vincent | Resource allocation and mobility management in wireless cellular networks, wireless personal area networks, and wireless mobile ad hoc networks |
| Yan | Joseph | Micromechatronics, particularly biomedical applications and biomimetic robotics |
| Yedlin | Matty | Applied electromagnetics, acoustics, DSP |
| Young | Lawrence | Optoelectronics, fibre optics | Materials Engineering |
| Alfantazi | Akram | Electrochemical processes in materials, corrosion at high pressures and temperatures, aqueous electrometallurgy, electrochemical synthesis of advanced materials and coatings, general hydrometallurgy |
| Asselin | Edouard | High temperature/high pressure (HT/HP) hydrometallurgy and HT/HP electrochemistry |
| Barr | Peter V. | Heat flow, combustion, plasmas, furnaces, rotary kilns, mathematical and physical modelling, materials processing for environment |
| Cockcroft | Steve L. | Mathematical modelling of solidification and casting processes, heat transfer, microstructure evolution and thermal stress analysis, aluminum alloys, nickel-based superalloys and coatings |
| Dixon | David G. | Hydrometallurgical process analysis and design, mathematical modelling, heap leaching, fluid flow and mass transfer, leaching kinetics, fixed bed processing |
| Dreisinger | David B. | Hydrometallurgy, solvent extraction, electrochemical kinetics, waste treatment, biohydro-metallurgy, ion exchange, process modelling |
| Fernlund | Goran | Polymer matrix composites, process modelling, adhesive bonding, mechanics and fracture of materials, design with materials, biomaterials |
| Ko | Frank | Nanofibre technology, advanced fibrous structures, biomaterials, and nanocomposites |
| Maijer | Daan | Mathematical modeling of materials processing, including heat transfer, solidfication, residual stress development, fluid flow and process control |
| Militzer | Matthias | Microstructure engineering, phase transformations, solute drag, surface and grain boundary segregation, structure-property relations, advanced steels, cu inter-connections |
| Poole | Warren | Mechanical properties and processing of metal-matrix composites, precipitation hardening in aluminum alloys and steels, non-isothermal treatments of metals and performance of composites in service |
| Poursartip | Anoush | Composite materials, modelling, instrumentation and optimization of autoclave processing, fracture, fatigue and impact performance, design, analysis and performance of composites in service |
| Sinclair | Chad | Physical metallurgy, mechanical properties and phase transformations, microstructural evolution, co-deformation, anisotrphy and functional properties of materials |
| Troczynski | Tom | Processing and characterization of ceramics, coatings: sol-gel and thermal sprayed, refractories, bioceramics, wear, and fracture |
| Wang | Rizhi | Biomaterials, biomimetic materials design and processing, smart materials and biosensors, bone and teeth mechanics, biomineralization, surface and interface |
| Wassink | Berend | Applied chemistry of extractive metallurgy, specifically hydrometallurgy |
| Xia | Guangrui | Electronic materials and devices, physics of nanofabrication and semiconductor process modeling and simulations |
| Mechanical Engineering | ||
| Altintas | Yusuf | Machine tool engineering, virtual high performance machining simulation systems, mechanics and dynamics of metal cutting, monitoring and control of machining processes for manufacturing automation |
| Atabaki | Nima | Heat and mass transfer, with applications to the conversion, storage and use of energy resources |
| Bushe | Kendal | Thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, with a specialization in combustion |
| Chiao | Mu | Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) |
| Cramond | Patrick | Machine design, product design and development, wood machining, CAD/CAM, engineering safety into product designs, machine maintenance management and engineering education and teaching |
| Cripton | Peter | Biomechanics of human injury, with an emphasis on spinal cord injury, and methods and devices to prevent spinal cord injuries |
| Croft | Elizabeth | Robotics, high level planning and control, sensor integration and artificial intelligence applications to robotics, machine vision, industrial automation, and computer integrated manufacturing |
| De Silva | Clarence | Intelligent control, robotics, process automation, control sensors and actuators |
| Dunwoody | Bruce | Mechanical design, vibrations, multi-body dynamics |
| Evans | Bob | Applied thermodynamics, combustion, IC engines, thermal power generation, turbomachinery |
| Feng | Hsi-Yung (Steve) | Five-axis sculptured surface machining, machining process planning, computational coordinate metrology, 3D scanning and geometric inspection, and point-based geometric modelling and representation |
| Fengler | Markus | Engineering design, design for disability, sustainable development |
| Frigaard | Ian | Non-newtonian fluid mechanics, cementing displacement flows, hydrodynamic stability, sprayforming processes |
| Gadala | Mohamed | Finite element formulation and application to nonlinear and fracture mechanics problems, design optimization using the finite element method |
| Grecov | Dana | Complex fluid mechanics and rheology, with interesting applications for industrial processing flows, biofluid mechanics and advanced materials |
| Green | Sheldon | Fluid dynamics, twin wire blade forming, pulp fibre separation, cavitation, marine propellers, wing tip vortices. biomechanics, blood vessel dynamics |
| Hill | Philip G. | Combustion of natural gas in diesel engines |
| Hodgson | Antony | Neuromotor control, medical robotics and neural networks |
| Hodgson | Murray | Acoustics, engineering and architectural acoustics, noise control, prediction methods, auralization |
| Hutton | Stanley G. | Analysis and measurement of machinery vibrations, characteristics of isolator mounts, finite element analysis, and dynamics of wood cutting machinery |
| Lu | Xiaodong | Novel electromechanical systems through the integration of electromechanics, precision machine design, structural dynamics, circuits, real-time computer design, and advanced control algorithms |
| McAdam | Don | Engineering design, heat transfer, heating ventilating and air-conditioning |
| Mérida | Walter | Sustainable energy systems, fuel cell and hydrogen technologies, and fuel generation from biomass |
| Mikkelsen | Jon | Naval architecture, fluid mechanics, engineering design, fishing gear design, engineering measurement, sustainable development |
| Nagamune | Ryozo | Advanced control engineering theory, in particular robust control algorithms for servo control in hard disk drives |
| Ollivier-Gooch | Carl | Computational fluid dynamics on unstructured meshes, unstructured mesh generation, aerodynamic/ hydrodynamic optimization |
| Olson | James | Advanced papermaking, fibre processing, and fibre fractionation research |
| Ostafichuk | Peter | Fluid mechanics and controls |
| Oxland | Thomas | Orthopaedic biomechanics, mechanics of orthopaedic implants, mechanics of human injury, spinal cord injury |
| Phani | Srikantha | Applied mechanics of materials, dynamics and vibrations, MEMS, and biomedical devices |
| Rogak | Steven | The application of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and chemical principles to problems in air pollution and waste treatment |
| Rohling | Robert | Biomedical engineering: medical imaging, medical information systems, and robotics |
| Romilly | Douglas | Solid body mechanics, fatigue and fracture, mechanical design, biomechanics, numerical modeling |
| Salcudean | Martha | Fluid flow and heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, two-phase flow and heat transfer, mathematical modelling of transport phenomena |
| Sassani | Farrokh | Computer-controlled friction welding, computer-aided process automation, modelling and simulation of manufacturing systems and processes |
| Schajer | Gary | Advanced processes for grading lumber, dynamics and stability of circular and band saws, computational methods for residual stress analysis |
| Stoeber | Boris | Micro-electromechanical systems, microfluidics, sensor technology, and integrated microsystems |
| Van der Loos | Machiel | Robotics, rehabilitation robotics, human-robot interaction, design for safety, design for methodology and design coaching, roboethics |
| Yellowley | Ian | Process modeling, design, and optimization, sensor development, embedded system design |
| Mining Engineering | ||
| Dunbar | Scott | Methods of mine valuation, operations research and simulation, applications of robotic swarms to mining and mineral processing |
| Gunson | AJ | Mill Water Usage/Small-Scale Mining |
| Hall | Robert | Mining equipment design and maintenance |
| Hitch | Michael | Mining sustainability, and mining design from the project feasibility stage |
| Klein | Bern | Industrial minerals processing, rheology of mineral suspensions, grinding, leaching of precious metals and base metals, process mineralogy, mineral processing plant design |
| Laskowski | Janusz | Surface chemistry of flotation, particle wettability and its effect on fine particle processing, coal surface chemistry and its effect on coal flotation and utilization (coal-water fuels), colloid chemistry of weak-electrolyte type flotation collectors, potash ores flotation, flotation of sulfide minerals and the use of polysaccharides as non-toxic modifiers in differential flotation of sulfide ores, rheology of mineral suspensions, beneficiation of fine coal in dense medium separators, rheology of dense media and its effect on fine coal beneficiation in dense medium cyclones |
| Meech | John | Process control, unit processes and flotation, environmental protection and expert systems, examining methods to process colloidal particles -- recovery of metals from primary ores, environmental precipitate processes and precipitates formed within metal recovery circuits |
| Pakalnis | Rimas | Mining rock mechanics |
| Pawlik | Marek | Surface/colloid chemistry of mineral processing, suspension rheology, environmental chemistry, and polymer and serfactant chemistry |
| Scoble | Malcolm | Sustainable mining, mining automation, and mining methods |
| van Zyl | Dirk | Geotechnical and risk aspects of mine waste disposal and heap leach design, mining sustainability and mining life-cycle management |
| Veiga | Marcello | Mine waste management and mineral processing |
| UBC Okanagan Engineering | ||
| Alam | M. Shahria | CIVL: Smart materials and their structural applications, seismic rehabilitation of deteriorated structures, and performance based design of reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete, and masonry structures |
| Bichler | Lukas | MECH: Manufacturing and casting of near-net-shape magnesium alloy components for the automotive and aerospace industries |
| Cao | Yang | MECH: Dynamics, control, robotics and mechatronics |
| Chau | Kenneth | EECE: Electromagnetism at sub-wavelength size scales |
| Cheng | Julian | EECE: Communication theory in the fields of wireless digital communications, particularly related to fading and interference |
| Eberle | Wilson | EECE: Power electronics, particularly the development, simulation and modeling of improved switching power converters for low and medium power applications |
| Eskicioglu | Cigdem | CIVL: Microwave pretreatment for minimization of municipal biosolids, anaerobic digestion for biowaste to energy, and computer modeling of wastewater and sludge treatment |
| Hallschmid | Peter | EECE: Computer engineering with an emphasis on configurable processors, field-programmable gate arrays and computer-aided design |
| Hewage | Kasun | CIVL: Construction productivity improvement, human factors in the information technology in construction, and risk management in construction |
| Holzman | Jonathan | EECE: Integration of ultrafast photonics and nano-optics toward applications in optical switching and photonic logic devices |
| Hoorfar | Mina | MECH: Thermofluids, in particular surface thermodynamics and its application in biotechnology, surface engineering and fuel cell technology |
| Johnson | Thomas | EECE: High efficiency radio frequency (RF) power amplifier systems; RF power sources for wireless, medical and industrial applications |
| Klukas | Richard | EECE: Wireless location, radio frequency propagation channel modeling and ultra wideband communications and positioning |
| Labun | Andrew | EECE: Microelectronics; interconnect reliability and process variation analysis of complex ultra-large-scale integration structures; electrical and chemical engineering simulations and analysis or semiconductor materials and process technologies; integration of complex computer-aided design reliability flows; and high-power gas lasers |
| Labun | Carolyn | First-year education and student development; Engineering communication pedagogy |
| Lovegrove | Gordon | CIVL: Macro-level collision prediction models; sustainable road safety & road safety engineering; governance, social, economic, & environmental aspects of sustainable development; transportation and land use aspects of community planning |
| Mehravaran | Kian | MECH: Turbulent Reactive Flows; Two-phase flows, Atomization and Sprays; Internal Combustion Engines |
| Milani | Abbas | MECH: Multi-level identification of constitutive properties of textile composites as well as multi-criteria material selection and optimization methods; FEM; Design and Analysis of Experiments (DOE & DACE) |
| Najjaran | Homayoun | MECH: Mechatronics, specializing in robotics, sensor technologies and soft computing |
| Naser | Bahman | CIVL: Environmental fluid dynamics, transient flow, water quality in distribution systems, sediment transport, and computational fluid dynamics |
| O'Leary | Stephen | EECE: Wide band gap III-V semiconductors; disordered semiconductors; the optical response of materials; novel electron devices |
| Patterson | Laura | Rhetoric, culture and popular media, and teaches oral and written communications particular to engineering |
| Prodanovic | Vladan | MECH: Heat transfer with phase change and its application in material processing |
| Roberts | Deborah | CIVL: Application of biological systems for aerobic and anaerobic degradation of contaminants from water, sediments and soil |
| Rteil | Ahmad | CIVL: Strengthening and rehabilitation of concrete structures and the use of fibre-reinforced poylmers (FRP) in new construction |
| Sadiq | Rehan | CIVL: Environmental Risk Analysis & Impact Assessment; Decision-Making Under Uncertainty; Water Distribution Systems Modelling and Management; Reliability Engineering and System Safety |
| Seethaler | Rudolf | MECH: Controlling the combustion process of internal combustion engines with very accurate and high acceleration electromechanical valves |
| Taheri | Ray | MECH: Materials science and engineering in general, and anti-corrosion coatings, including electroless Nickle-Phosphorous (EN), in particular |
| Tannant | Dwayne | CIVL: Rock mechanics, geotechnical engineering, and engineering geology with emphasis on applied research associated with surface and underground excavations in rock for civil and mining applications |
| Tesfamariam | Solomon | CIVL: Earthquake engineering, seismic risk analysis of reinforced concrete structures and risk-based decision making for infrastructure management |
| Yan | Claire Yu | MECH: CFD (computational fluid dynamics), heat and mass transfer in multi-component fluid mixtures, and thermal diffusion (thermophoresis) |
| Yannacopoulos | Spiro | MECH: Materials science and metallurgy, including the weldability, creep behavior and erosion-corrosion characteristics of steel, as well as structure-property relationships of aluminum alloys |
